Friedrich Guimpel

Friedrich Guimpel (1 August 1774 in Berlin – 17 January 1839) was a German engraver and botanical illustrator.

An artist and professor at the Berlin Academy of Arts, he collaborated with several renowned botanists in the creation of illustrated botanical works.^[1][2]

The species Berberis guimpelii was named in his honor by Karl Koch and Carl David Bouché. It is synonymous with Berberis chinensis.^[3]

Lesser known is that Friedrich Guimpel also illustrated in colors a least one medical book: Carl Heinrich Weller Die Krankheiten des menschlichen Auges (Berlin 1819) and also the second edition of the same work in 1822.

Selected works[edit]

• Abbildung der deutschen holzarten für forstmäner und liebhaber der botanik, 1815 – 1820 (with Friedrich Gottlob Hayne; Karl Ludwig Willdenow) – Illustrations of German wood species for foresters and lovers of botany.
• Abbildung der fremden, in Deutschland ausdauernden holzarten für forstmänner, garten besitzer und für freunde der botanik, 1825 (with Friedrich Gottlob Hayne; Christoph Friedrich Otto).
• Abbildung und Beschreibung aller in der Pharmacopoea Borussica aufgeführten Gewächse, (with Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal) – Illustrations and descriptions of everything in the Pharmacopoeia Borussica listing of plants.
• Pflanzen-Abbildungen und Beschreibungen zur Erkenntniss officineller Gewächse, 1838 (with Johann Friedrich Klotzsch) – Botanical illustrations and descriptions of officinal plants.^[4]

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